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Art Texts Pics is an online magazine published both in Italian and in English. Established in 2010, Art Texts Pics contains interviews, conversations, essays, exhibition previews and event agendas. The magazine covers both well known, institutional realities – such as museum exhibitions, established galleries and foundations – and alternative, young spaces.

Nicolina Eklund: Researches might differ, but we land
somewhere on the same conclusion- there’s a crazy bitch inside the both os us,
that I’m damn proud of. The collaboration was running so smooth because OF our
differences, we don’t step on each others fields, meaning more room for the
both os us, it’s lovely and free.

N.E: The story came forth mostly through us emailing each
other about what we wanted to express, poetically and visually. I saw our
collective memory bank taking shape into a pink brainstem that inevitably crept
into me, because I invited it, I channelled it. In a sense it was all for me, I
am the broken diva and the stage was mine. In another sense, I was just decor.

ATPdiary: How was the relation with the public space during the performance Nico?

N.E.: It was the first time for me to do this sort of thing,
where most people who see it aren’t a part of the bubble. Edicola is a small
satellite of art between street vendors and tourists drunk on overpriced
spritz. Together with the average Italian grandmother they are not my most
common spectator. It was hard to rehearse at the scene and even harder to
predict anything unwanted that could happen in such an environment, it’s scary
as hell. I had to change into my costume at the toilet of a bar close by, and
there was no place to get pumped or make my pre-performance ritual. I had
nowhere to hide, which I normally do a lot before a performance. I hide and have
a small cocktail. This time it was more game on and straight in the face of an
unexpected crowd. People on the other side of the river, who had no idea of the
context, just saw a woman in her underwear throwing five kilos of pearls into
the water. I highly recommend it.